The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-10-22

ue bouIHerS felt an anguish very cOm- | prehensible.
 Pleasure yourself, madame" said Cartouche, with & smile (he had guessed the thought ot his hostess). "There is lounge on which l will wait for the dawn of the day. You have nothing to fear from my friends o-night, madame. You may repose in peace; good night, and good sleep to you, my charming benefactress."
 And salutlng the duchess with the most exquisite politeness, Cartouche stretched himself on the lounge and fell asleep without fear and without reproach, like Knight Bayard in per- son.
 The dawn of the day whitened the horizon.
 Did you have good sleep, mad anne? Allow me to retire and to thark you from the bottom of my heart. If I have violated so out rageously all the laws of abstinence but one, on Holy Thursday, shall. atone for this mortal sin by going to vespers next Easter Sunday at the church of Notre Dame! Perhaps we will have, you, madame, the luck, and the honor of meeting each other"
 A smile parted his cherry like lips, he replaced his pistols in his belt, bowed before the duchess and disap- peared through the balcony window without carrying with him anything from Madame the Duchess de Bouff- ler's room.
 On Easter Sunday the cathedral of Notre Dame was filled with people. The great aisle was obstructed with gigantic scaffoldings, as they were repairing the vaults. Between mass and vespers Cartouche divided his men in three bands. One was con- cealed between the chevrons like a flight of sparrows in the branches of a tree. Another mixed itself with the crowd entering the church; finally the last one was scattered at the exits
 The vespers began.
 At the first verse of the second Psalm those of the bandits hidden on the scaff'olding threw bricks, tools, mortar and ladders on the people below. Those in the cathedral cried that the vaults were going down {; they made the auditorium crazy with fear, while those in the exits gathered watches, snuff boxes, purses, rings, bracelets, &c.
 Madame the Duchess de Boufflers had come to vespers, the words of Cartouche had decided her. She was exceedingly curious to see her noe turnal visito: in broad daylight.
 At the beginning of the fracas a gentleman rushed towards her. He put his arm around her waist, pushed the crowd aside with herculanean strength and brought the duchess unhsrmed to the portico.
 "I was certain to meet you, madame the duchess, and for your good for tune. You have saved my bones from the wheel, at my turn 1 save your jewels. A good deed is always rewarded. That is the belief of Car touche.
 "You have peculiar way for doing your Easter duties, Monster Car touche," replied Madame de Boufflers, smiling sardonically.
 "But you must admit, madame. that if I forget my Christian duties, by robbing my neighbor of his man servant, or his maid servant, of his OK, of his ass and the balance of what he may possess, l respect-sometimes his wife"
 And laughing, saluting, Cartouchc 3 vanished in the crowd, while madame the duchess entered her coach on the Parvis Notre Dame.
 "There were a few killed, many wounded and thousands robbed" said Pignerol, in his "History of Paris"
 Cartouche continued his deeds of a bandit gentleman. He promenaded the streets during the day, and the roofs during the night. He showed himself on the public parks, sat down in the most popular restaurants and went to the opera to see the new plays, and often, early in the morning, he raised rumpus with fish mer- chant, the worst virago of the market
 To conclude, he was the most fash ionable brigand of the world and the best soul of Paris.
 A few months after his prowess of Notre Dame the genda,mes of Mon- sieur the lieutenant of police surprised him in his bed in a little inn of the Courtille.
 They chained him like wild beast and conducted him to the prison of the Chatelet.
 Great rumor in the capital. It was we'll done but everybody was sorry for it, the gendd,mes and Monsieur the lieutenant of police excepted.
 Both aristocracy and commonalty besieged the gates of the Chatelet in their eagerness to see the amiable, witty, gentlemanly and loved thief